TDCType Directors Club

Calls for Entries : Type Design : TDC2 2001

TDC2 2001 Results

See the winning entries in the TDC2 2001 Type Design Competition

TDC2 call for entries

Deadline Extended to 12 January 2001!

Type designs completed and/or released between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2000, are eligible.

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Competition Categories & Types of Entries

Text designs:
Typefaces & type families featuring full character sets, intended for use in composition of text for continuous reading.
Display designs:
Typefaces & type families featuring full or reduced character sets, intended for use in larger sizes rather than for body text.
Text/display type systems:
Extended groups of related typefaces featuring separate designs for text & display composition (digital fonts produced in multiple-master format often fall within this category).
Type superfamilies:
Extended groups of related typefaces featuring designs belonging to different style categories; e.g., serif & sans-serif, serif & slab serif (some digital fonts produced in multiple-master or OpenType formats fall within this category).
Pi fonts:
Typefaces featuring special character sets for mathematical, phonetic, & other specialized applications, as well as dingbats, icons, symbols, & other pictorial items in a font format. Ornament & border designs are also included in this category.

Notes

Student type designs:
There is no separate category for student type designs. These must be entered in one of the regular categories.
Custom typefaces:
Custom (proprietary) typefaces, designed for private use rather than resale, are eligible, and should be entered in the appropriate design category. Custom designs may include typefaces produced for use by a specific designer or a design firm, as well as those for corporate or other non-design clients. If the design is based on an existing typeface, please identify the design source (please specify the intended use, without identifying the client; e.g., "text typeface created for a financial newspaper").
Non-Latin typefaces/families/systems:
Typefaces created for different alphabets/writing systems than Latin (e.g., Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, etc.) are eligible, and should be entered in the appropriate design category. As necessary, experts in the relevant non-Latin scripts may be invited by the jury for consultation.

John D. Berry, Chairman ( non-voting)

The Jury

Robert Bringhurst
is a poet & typographic historian living in Vancouver. His book The Elements of Typographic Style (2nd ed., 1996) is widely used as a textbook and serves as a standard reference in the field. He is also the author, with Warren Chappell, of the newly revised and updated Short History of the Printed Word.

Tobias Frere-Jones
was born in 1970 in New York. An artist being raised in a family of writers & printers, he learned the power of written text, and naturally slipped into design of letterforms. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992 and began full-time work for the Font Bureau as a Senior Designer. He recently left Font Bureau to return to New York, to collaborate with type designer Jonathan Hoefler. To date, he has designed over 300 typefaces for retail distribution, custom clients, & experiments. At Yale School of Design, he teaches a type design course with Matthew Carter.

Helen Keyes
is Creative Director at Enterprise IG, where she is responsible for the creative initiative of projects. In this capacity she conjures beautiful, effective ideas for corporate & product branding initiatives. Before joining Enterprise IG, Helen was an external consultant to Diefenbach Elkins Davis Baron in the United Kingdom. She has also been an external consultant to Real Time Studio (U.K.). Prior to this she was a Senior Designer with Wolff Olins Design, London, & before that she was a Design Director with Sampson Tyrrell Design, London. She began her career as a graphic designer with Raymond Loewy International in London.

Carol Twombly
became interested in type while studying graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she graduated with a BFA in 1981. She entered & won first prize (Latin text division) in the 1984 Morisawa Typeface Design Competition with her first original typeface, Mirarae, based on her calligraphy. She became a full-time member of the Adobe type staff in March 1988, and continued there as one of three principle designers until July of 1999. She is the designer of the first three display typefaces in the Adobe Originals collection: Trajan, Charlemagne, & Lithos. She also designed Adobe Caslon, a digital revival of William Caslon's metal typeface family, and several original multiple master families: Myriad (co-designed with Robert Slimbach), Viva, Nueva, & Chaparral.

Submission Procedure

Typefaces/fonts may be submitted by anyone involved in their design, production, or marketing. Typefaces created for the TDC, and by the chairman or the judges, are ineligible.

Entries are to be submitted as 11x17 in. or A3 (290x420 mm) paper proofs. Please submit each individual/constituent font-showing as a separate sheet. Each proof should show the typeface in whatever way seems appropriate for that face; proofs may include, but are not limited to, headlines, short or long passages of text, sample pages/double-page spreads of book or magazine make-up, or multiple-column text.

The only requirements for the proofs are:

The name of the typeface, its designer(s), or its manufacturer must not appear on the front or on the back of the proof.

Reminder!

The entries must not contain any reference to the name of the typeface, its designer, or its manufacturer. This information should appear only on the attached entry form. This is intended to ensure equal and unbiased consideration for all entries.

 

Entry Form Information

Each entry form must indicate:

Official entry & payment forms are printed in the PDF brochure. If additional forms are needed, please make same-size photocopies. Do not enlarge or reduce the form, and do not design your own entry form. Only the information listed in the form is needed at the time of submission. An entry form must be attached to the back of each entry, taped only at the top of the form (please do not glue). One entry form is sufficient for a family or system, and should be attached to the main item. The form will be removed prior to judging. Entries must not be submitted with business cards or other identification of the designer/submitter on the front or back.

Links to PDF brochures

Deadline

January 5, 2001

Entry Fees

Single typeface:

Type family:
(3 to 8 constituent type styles)

Type system or superfamily:
(9 or more constituent type styles)

Payment must be submitted with entries. It can be in cash, check, money order, U.S. dollar travelers checks, or charged to American Express, Visa, or MasterCard. Checks and money orders must be in U.S. dollars and drawn on a United States bank.

For purposes of determining entry & hanging fees:

Expert sets, SCOSF ("small-caps and old-style figures") fonts, & other font complements with miscellaneous characters (such as alternates, ligatures, small capitals, old-style figures, fleurons, etc.) that are normally used as a supplement to ordinary fonts are considered to be part of their respective type families/systems/superfamilies. This also applies to extended character sets for OpenType, or AAT (GX-format) fonts.

Multiple-master typefaces are defined by their number of primary instances. Each instance is considered to be equivalent to a constituent style of a type family.

Non-Latin extensions of Latin typefaces are considered members of their respective type family or system.

Individual dingbat, symbol, or pi fonts are treated as equivalent to single typefaces.

Hanging Fees

Winners will be charged a US$80 hanging fee for individual typefaces, US$100 for each type family, and US$130 for each type system or superfamily that will be included in the TDC annual book and exhibition (hanging fees are reduced for TDC members).

Deadline/Shipping

Deadline Extended to 12 January 2001!

All entries (with entry forms attached to them), together with fees (and one payment form per participant), must be delivered by Friday, January 5, 2001, to:

TDC2/Type Directors Club
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 721
New York, NY 10165-0799
USA

If more than one package is shipped, this must be indicated on each package (e.g., "1 of 2"). Packages must be delivered prepaid. Non-U.S. contestants should mark each package "Material for contest entry. No commercial value." No provision will be made by TDC for U.S. Customs or airport pick-up. Any customs fees will be charged back to the entrant. No entries will be returned.

Awards

The winners of TDC2 will be notified during the week of January 22, 2001. Entries selected by the jury will receive Certificates of Excellence in Type Design. They will be exhibited alongside the winners of the TDC47 competition and will appear in Typography 22, the annual of the Type Directors Club.

The opening of TDC47 and TDC2 will be held in New York City. Both exhibits will be on display during the summer of 2001. Winners will be asked to supply five (5) extra copies of their entries, for use in exhibitions outside New York. These shows travel throughout North & South America, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, and East Asia. Credits of individuals and firms that have contributed to each entry will be included in the exhibition and in Typography 22.

For further information, please contact the TDC offices:

Carol Wahler

Executive Director

telephone: +1 (212) 983-6042

fax: +1 (212) 983-6043

e-mail: director@TDC.org

web site: http://www.TDC.org/

Become a Member of TDC

The Type Directors Club is an international organization founded in 1946 whose members include design professionals, typographic designers, type designers, and typophiles. TDC sponsors a variety of lectures, conferences, and two prestigious annual competitions that reward excellence in the creation & use of typefaces, calligraphy, hand lettering, and other letterforms. Winners of the competitions are published in the TDC annual, distributed worldwide. For more information about TDC, visit the web site, www.TDC.org, or contact the membership office directly.

Members receive:

Membership categories:

For more details and for membership forms, see the Join page of this site.

Payment Form (& Membership Application) Text

Please print and use the PDF forms provided from this link below.

This form must accompany your entry, and it must be filled out completely. Use only one payment form for all your entries. (If you are not already a member of TDC, you may use this form to join at the same time you submit your entries to the competition.)

(First rate is for TDC members / second is for non-members / last is the total)

Number of single entries:
__ @US$20 / __ @US$25 / US$ ___

Number of type families:
__ @US$45 / __ @US$50 / US$ ___

Number of type systems or superfamilies:
__ @US$90 / __ @US$100 / US$ ___

Membership fee (see description above):
[check one:] __ Regular __ Student __ Sustaining / US$ ___

Total payment enclosed:
US$ ___

Payment:
__ Cash __ Check __ American Express __ Visa __ MasterCard

(Please make all checks payable to: Type Directors Club)

Name on card:

Signature:

Credit card number:

Expiration date:

Name & title:

Company or school:

Address:

City/state:

Zip/postal code:

Country:

E-mail:

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Entry Form Text

Please print and use the PDF forms provided from this link below.

IMPORTANT: Please tape this form to the top of your entry. Do not tape any other sides. Do not use glue or other adhesive. The form will be removed prior to judging.

Competition category (check one):

__ Text __ Display __ Text/display __ Pi

Type of entry [check one]:

__ Single typeface (one font)

__ Type family / No. of constituent styles (fonts): ____

__ Type system / No. of constituent styles (fonts): ____

__ Type superfamily / No. of constituent styles (fonts): ____

Alphabet/writing system:

__ Latin

__ Non-Latin (please specify):

Digital font format (if applicable):

__ PostScript

__ TrueType

__ Multiple master

__ OpenType

__ Other (please specify):

Name of typeface/family/system/superfamily:___

Designer:___

Client:___

Manufacturer/distributor:___

Submitted by (name & title):___

Company or school:___

Address:___

City/state:___

Zip/postal code:___

Country:___

E-mail:___

Telephone:___

Fax:___

Download Forms

Links to Download PDF Announcement and Forms Files

Multi-page A4 format:

Or the original mailer forms as:

See also the Membership page of this site for the Join form and PDFs.

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